Ostracism is an ancient democratic tradition practiced in Athens that offers an alternative approach of imprisoning political ...

The ancient Greeks ... the adult males of Athenian birth and full status. Of those 30,000 perhaps 5,000 might regularly attend one or more meetings of the popular Assembly, of which there were ...

At Prawfsblawg, legal scholar Paul Gowder has an insightful post on some of the reasons why the study of ancient Athenian democracy is relevant to modern debates about law and politics.

Cecilie Brøns, a senior researcher and curator of the Glyptoteket museum's collection of ancient Greek and Roman art in Copenhagen, Denmark, says ancient texts provide evidence that statues were ...

There are some interesting parallels to all of this in the political landscape of ancient Athens. It was here that ... Each year the assembly of citizens (“ekklesia”) decided whether to ...